RACHEL KUSHNER's most recent novel,
The Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the 2014 Folio Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize, longlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and a New York Times Top Five Novel of 2013. Kushner is the only writer ever to be nominated for a National Book Award in Fiction for both a first and second novel. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the
New Yorker,
Harper's, the
New York Times, and the
Paris Review, among other places.
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